On October 1, 2015, the intrepid Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, announced to the nation that the previous Jonathan government spent some N64 billion on Independence Day celebrations. It turned out that El-Rufai was wildly off the mark; he had greatly massaged the figures.

IT usually turns out to be an interesting reading, interviews with politicians who readily blurt out funny comments that are not thoughtful and cannot be adjudged to be helpful to communal politics like the recent one of Mr. Orobosa Omo-Ojo (in the Vanguard of Saturday, December 5, 2015.) in which he was described as a journalist, publisher, a frontline All Progressives Congress, APC stalwart and former Commissioner in Adams Oshiomhole government in Edo State.

In a recent interview he granted Channels Television, Prof Wole Soyinka’s attempt at assessing the last general elections and the outcomes, where he praised the Buhari administration to high heavens and concluded dogmatically that Nigeria would have collapsed if former President Goodluck Jonathan had won the 2015 polls, muddled up his own public record and left our own W.S. punching below his weight.

For an agency established to provide resources and the framework for the promotion of manpower development, these are certainly not the best of days for the Industrial Training Fund, ITF. At the beginning of the month, the headquarters of the agency in Jos, Plateau State, was locked down on account of a three-day strike masterminded by two unions.

Governorship elections of Kogi and Bayelsa States have been the talking points since Sunday, November 22, 2015 when INEC announced the Kogi election as inconclusive. The sudden death of Prince Abubakar Audu, who was coasting home to victory, created a lot of confusion .

King Solomon, in one of his documented sayings of wisdom, says: “The glory of the youth is their strength and the beauty of the old men is their grey head” – Proverbs 20:29. When I take a survey at N-I-G-E-R-I-A, I ask myself questions about the meaning of the saying. How well are the youth channelling their strength to good use thereby shining forth in their glory? Do the older and more experienced outsmart the youth in the regular daily contest for survival? These are questions to be addressed going forward.

TEN years after it was conceived as a platform for Nigerians to put aside their striking ethno-religious diversities and worship God, The Experience gospel concert, has transformed into a vehicle for the continuous repositioning of Nigeria on the path of greatness.

First, it was Senator Donald Dick Etiebet, Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, in the Second Republic, 1979-1983, Governor of old Cross River State (now Cross River and Akwa Ibom States in July, 2015.

It was neither a vacation trip nor a tour for seasonal ceremony. It was a journey to attend a crisis communication seminar for humanitarian workers and journalists covering disasters which was held in Maiduguri in the first week of December 2015. My family members could not dissuade me from the trip that hopefully would provide me another opportunity to assess one of the Boko Haram worst-hit cities in Nigeria.

Taxation is a means of generating revenue by government for the purpose of providing social services to the people. Taxation all over the world is a function of reciprocity.